Great. This will go with the 50 billion cameras they have watching everyone. No doubt soon to be joined by the ever popular house-to-house public opinion polls (answer "yes" or "no", I suggest "yes" unless you want your head nailed to the wardrobe).
Sadly, it appears that properly tuned Diesels are as rare as hen's teeth:-( (just sit behind almost any Diesel powered vehicle on the highway and breathe in the lovely fresh unburned hydrocarbons adsorbed to microfine carbon particles which lodge deep into one's lungs)
Machines may be powered by electricity or a self-contained diesel generator and are environmentally friendly due to lower energy requirements and no harmful or toxic by-products.
So it's not, in fact, "no by products", it's "low by products". Although how Diesel emissions can be considered non-toxic is beyond me.
Awareness might make the difference between a woman having a mammogram, or not.
Let's not be ignorant about this: screening and early detection can make a huge difference in breast cancer (others, too!). I just don't agree that awareness makes people think they are safe. And, yes, something is being done about the problem, starting with screening.
Every bit of publicity helps. Please don't belittle educational programs. Grass-roots education for regular screening arguably helps as much as the latest whiz-bang chemotherapeutic agent. If you catch it early, you markedly improve survival rates.
Vaccination came about because of Edward Jenner's observation that milkmaids tended not to get smallpox. The milkmaids had been exposed to cowpox (vaccinia) and were immune. Jenner developed a smallpox vaccine in 1796. Pasteur later went on to further develop the technique, but credit for the discovery should go to Jenner.
This is surely the perfect car. I can just imagine the scene:
Car pulled over by the highway patrol for doing 150 in a 65 zone. Officer is puzzled by the fact that the only person in the car is asleep, in the back seat. "Did you know what speed you were doing, sir?" "Huh, um, wha? Oh - the car was driving, Officer".
Seeing the reference to an "optically switched glue" for the boots, reminds me of Daedalus, a column which used to appear at the back of New Scientist (and elsewhere). The author and his ficticious company, DREADCO, came up with a large number of semi-plausible inventions, including a certain "Dreadhesive" which was a liquid crystal glue, useful for catching burglars in the same manner as fly paper. This adhesive was electrically switched, and the police could free the unfortunate captive by turning on or off a distant master switch:-)
Amazing the way things which seemed far fetched, have a habit of becoming (nearly!) reality, isn't it?
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... Now I can look like Geordi LaForge!
Great. This will go with the 50 billion cameras they have watching everyone. No doubt soon to be joined by the ever popular house-to-house public opinion polls (answer "yes" or "no", I suggest "yes" unless you want your head nailed to the wardrobe).
Not to mention YewTube, the world's first on-line supplier of shipping containers for medieval archery equipment.
Sadly, it appears that properly tuned Diesels are as rare as hen's teeth :-( (just sit behind almost any Diesel powered vehicle on the highway and breathe in the lovely fresh unburned hydrocarbons adsorbed to microfine carbon particles which lodge deep into one's lungs)
From Aqua Sciences's website:-
Machines may be powered by electricity or a self-contained diesel generator and are environmentally friendly due to lower energy requirements and no harmful or toxic by-products.
So it's not, in fact, "no by products", it's "low by products". Although how Diesel emissions can be considered non-toxic is beyond me.
Awareness might make the difference between a woman having a mammogram, or not.
Let's not be ignorant about this: screening and early detection can make a huge difference in breast cancer (others, too!). I just don't agree that awareness makes people think they are safe. And, yes, something is being done about the problem, starting with screening.
Every bit of publicity helps. Please don't belittle educational programs. Grass-roots education for regular screening arguably helps as much as the latest whiz-bang chemotherapeutic agent. If you catch it early, you markedly improve survival rates.
#ffcccc looks good.
It would be a shame to send it once and have them miss it.
Don't worry. If they wait, they'll be able to catch in on the re-run.
I first read that as "playing with a proctoscope"...
... or are you pleased to see me?
...Stewards.
I have no further comment.
A little historical correction is in order here.
Vaccination came about because of Edward Jenner's observation that milkmaids tended not to get smallpox. The milkmaids had been exposed to cowpox (vaccinia) and were immune. Jenner developed a smallpox vaccine in 1796. Pasteur later went on to further develop the technique, but credit for the discovery should go to Jenner.
... the widescreen iPod?
the taste of burning flesh from the laser's cauterizing
:-)
Yummm, hamburger! And its July 4th tomorrow
This is surely the perfect car. I can just imagine the scene:
Car pulled over by the highway patrol for doing 150 in a 65 zone.
Officer is puzzled by the fact that the only person in the car is asleep, in the back seat.
"Did you know what speed you were doing, sir?"
"Huh, um, wha? Oh - the car was driving, Officer".
Car has to appear in court next Wednesday.
... at zero comments!
:-)
Looks like MacFixit's server uses one of those batteries
Seeing the reference to an "optically switched glue" for the boots, reminds me of Daedalus, a column which used to appear at the back of New Scientist (and elsewhere). The author and his ficticious company, DREADCO, came up with a large number of semi-plausible inventions, including a certain "Dreadhesive" which was a liquid crystal glue, useful for catching burglars in the same manner as fly paper. This adhesive was electrically switched, and the police could free the unfortunate captive by turning on or off a distant master switch :-)
Amazing the way things which seemed far fetched, have a habit of becoming (nearly!) reality, isn't it?
I would imagine that the company producing these cats will spay/neuter them before they sell them.
Better get out the cloning kit.
Damage depends on the speed *and mass* of the robot, doesn't it?
Try driving your car into a fire hydrant at 3.4 mph and see what that does to the bumper...
*Ahem* you presuppose that we would actually want him back...
... which has been around for ages: e.g. was on the table in 1991 Probably originates much earlier.
News?? ???
No-one intentionally goes to Real.com.
:-
Only reason Real.com is up there (with a long time per visit) is
Buffering... Buffering... Buffering...
... I keep my cell phone securely under my tin foil hat when I'm not making calls.
... tend to be quick finishers.
/should try novocaine gel.
I don't know about that, it didn't seem to affect my computer at al^%$#@#$%& NO CARRIER